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How To Get Easy Access To Advice From BJJ Experts

How To Get Easy Access To Advice From BJJ Experts

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Jiu Jitsu is a most complex art. While a system like boxing has a reasonable level of complexity, this pales before the ‘flow of technique’ in a BJJ bout. In BJJ technique flows into counter technique, which then flows into technique again, and so on. A BJJ bout might be likened to rivers converging, merging their forces, so that sometimes one gains dominance and then another, until the end of the bout.

Mastery of technique, and the application of that technique in a bout, is something that comes only with intense practice, and with the advice and attention of a trained instructor.

Getting expert instruction and advice

There is a site – blackmonkeyexpert.com – that is dedicated to the refinement of technique that is so important to the BJJ practitioner. One can upload one’s videos on this site, and ask questions of their experts – and then one can use that advice to refine one’s technique.

This sort of expert advice can be crucially important. There are many areas of BJJ where refining one’s technique with such advice can lead to an exponential increase in one’s effectiveness on the mat.

The complexity of BJJ

Take the standing guard pass, for example. Dealing with this, especially if the opponent knows how to use his hips and legs correctly, can be excruciatingly difficult. You need to open the opponent’s legs as they cross your back. Many instructors will insist a student take a private lesson to learn the correct method as well as the variations associated with a standing guard pass, but if you wish further refinement, you could always post a video and ask a question on blackmonkeyexpert.com

Brown belt European Champion Adam Wardziński is on blackmonkey

Brown belt European Champion Adam Wardziński is on blackmonkey

And a BJJ exponent did just that…

Here’s a question on the guard pass defense by a BJJ exponent who put his video on the site. You can find the video and the link here. In the bout, the person asking the question went for the opponent’s leg, but was unable to effectively apply the technique. Maciej “Lobo” Linke, one of blackmonkeyexperts.com’s experts, advises patient execution of technique. He advises that a person in this position allow his hand to move upward under the opponent’s arm, and so to apply pressure to put him on his back.

 

But you must not think that the only questions on the site are about the guard pass. On the contrary, there are all sorts of questions, dealing with everything from how to deal with the differences between gi and no-gi fighting, to submission holds, counter measures, and much more. 

Let’s focus on some expert advice on one common topic by the experts on blackmonkeyexperts.com…

An example of expert advice: Dealing with a side mount…

We all know how crucial efficient escapes are to BJJ. And being able to efficiently escape a side mount is crucial to your defensive capability on the mat.

One very common error that many experienced BJJ practitioners make in dealing with the side mount is exposing the neck. No matter how well you know how to escape a side mount, it becomes ineffectual if you expose yourself to a choke-submission. You should ensure that one of your hands is in a position to defend against a choke while you escape from the side mount.

Many newer exponents also do not realize just how crucial both bridging and shrimping are. Timing is crucial, as both these movements need to be effectively combined. The secret, as Maciej “Lobo” Linke says in his reply to a question on blackmonkeyexperts.com, lies in intense training at technique, until technique becomes instinct.

Can you combine a guard replacement with escapes that take you to your knees? If you cannot do that, you need to post a question on Black Monkey Experts right now! Learn to do this, and hardly anyone will ever be able to hold you in a side mount!

One nice thing about blackmonkeyexpert.com is that not only does one get much-needed answers to one’s questions there, but can win cool stuff too. There’s usually a prize for the most interesting and challenging question of the week – for example, a rashguard. Especially likely to win prizes are questions that other BJJ practitioners find interesting. If they share your question a lot, the weekly prize is yours.

 

World Newaza Jiu-Jitsu champion Maciej SMS Kozak is on blackmonkey

World Newaza Jiu-Jitsu champion Maciej SMS Kozak is on blackmonkey

 

I think this is a particularly great concept, because it encourages people to ask questions that are useful to everyone who is interested in this wonderful combat form and sport.

Are the people who give advice on BlackMonkeyExperts.com really qualified?

You bet they are! There’s the four-time gold medalist of the Polish League, a man who has consistently ranked as a medalist in the World Championships and European Championships. He’s also and experienced MMA fighter, and took the Scottish Immortals Belt in 2015. This man is brilliant at takedowns, and unbeatable at the half-guard.

Then there’s Maciej Kozak, a highly modernistic jiu-jitsu fighter. He plays an aggressive game, and is especially good in open guard. Maciej Kozak is a technical specialist and is especially good at advising BJJ exponents who would like to improve their technique. It goes without saying that he has won Polish, World Professional and European Championships.

Adam Wardziński is a highly competitive combatant, and if championship victories are a mark of excellence, this man is perhaps most qualified to advise budding professional BJJ fighters, for he has a string of victories that, if put down here, would take up this page.

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